Wednesday, 21 November 2007

A German court of appeals in Frankfurt earlier this month affirmed the claim of prominent German Jewish journalist Henryk M. Broder that Jewish self-hatred and Jewish anti-Semitism indeed exist.

It was the first legal verdict in the history of the German judiciary in which a court recognized the phenomenon of Jews relying on anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist statements and material to rage against Jews and Israel.

"The decision is fair," Broder told The Jewish Press. He noted that there are "nurses who kill their patients, attorneys who commit insurance fraud. Why can there not therefore be Jews who are anti-Semites?"

The judge assigned to the dispute, Jürgen Maruhn, suggested that the highly charged American debate over Jewish anti-Zionists has finally arrived in Germany. Journalist Alex Feuerherdt, who was present at the appeal hearing, said he believes the judge, while not explicitly naming the work, relied on Indiana University professor Alvin Rosenfeld's controversial essay "'Progressive' Jewish thought and the New Anti-Semitism" to better understand Jews who loathe Israel.

Rosenfeld's 2006 study, which has been translated into German, makes the case that the fiery anti-Israel books and statements of a growing number of North American Jews are contributing to a new form of anti-Semitism.

European Jews who argue for the dissolution of Israel or disseminate a radical anti-Zionist outlook have long been the target of Broder's criticism. He coined the phrase "kosher anti-Semitism" to describe the phenomenon. That many publishing houses, newspapers, and universities are amenable to a small group of Jewish writers and academics who camouflage their ambivalence or even hatred of Jewry with a vicious critique of Israel is, he said, a run-of-the mill occurrence in Germany, especially among left-liberal newspapers like die taz and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

To most Germans, the idea of a Jewish anti-Semite seems to be an unfathomable concept, and this is precisely what Broder is attempting to debunk in both the legal and journalistic arenas.

In 2005, Broder, known for his sharp polemical skills and wry humor, wrote a blog article "Holo with Hajo: How two Jews did the Adolf in Leipzig," satirizing publisher Abraham Melzer and author Hajo Meyer. The comparison to Hitler prompted Melzer and Meyer to file a lawsuit asserting libel and thereby deny Broder his free speech protections.

Meyer's book The End of Jewry, which Melzer published, triggered Broder's jibe against the two men. The book propagates the thesis that the "earliest cause for anti-Semitism is situated in Jewry." Meyer, who survived Auschwitz, plays down the significance of the Holocaust ("a vagary of history") and routinely compares Israel to Nazi Germany, equating Israeli border control checkpoints with the Nazi SS.

In addition to the Adolf comment, Meyer and Melzer sought legal relief against two other Broder characterizations. He said both men are "experts on applied Judeophobia" and ridiculed the publisher Melzer for "discovering a gap that he diligently filled with brown filth."

A regional court in Frankfurt declared Broder's Hitler mockery to be protected speech but prohibited him from writing that Melzer and Meyer are professional Jew haters, from impugning them with the charge of Jewish anti-Semitism, and from repeating the "brown filth" criticism.

Broder appealed the decision and publicly embarrassed the lower court with his acid-laced rebuke.

"A bad odor remains in that the inheritors of the firm Freisler decide what is anti-Semitic and what is not," he said, referring to Roland Freisler, the chief Nazi judge of the "people's court" during the Nazi era.

At the appeal hearing, Judge Maruhn ruled that the designation "experts in applied Jewphobia" is a legally permissible critique of both plaintiffs, as is Broder's "Adolf in Leipzig" description.

His barb about Melzer's publishing house relying on brown filth to earn profits was ruled unprotected speech because "the color brown creates an association with National Socialism," according to Judge Maruhn, and could lead to the belief that Melzer publishes Nazi literature.

Broder's attorney, Jan Hegemann, told The Jewish Press, "I judge the decision positively. The court recognized that the formulation 'expert in applied Judeophobia' is a permissible expression of opinion. At the oral hearing, the judges made it clear that they were aware of the intense debate about Jewish anti-Semitism.

"That the accusation affects Dr. Meyer, a Holocaust survivor, gives the case a certain tragic air, but there could not have been any other decision. Henryk Broder is allowed to say that he considers Meyers's theses anti-Semitic and can formulate it this way."

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Strange because there is nothing more ANTI SEMITIC than a zionist JEW..

since the Palestinians being "natives" of the country geographically , are actually the only SEMITE'S of the region .. so this means logically anyone who is enacting genocide and occupation the people of Palestine is an ANTI SEMITE .. nothing could be further from the truth to call ISRAELI JEWS semites.. they arent..

Jewish eugenics pre-dates Hitler's Master Race According to the Israeli daily newspaper quoted below, before the Nazi Third Reich in Germany plotted to create a Master Race from the European gene pool, Zionists had already established a racial purification program to create the perfect Jewish bloodline. More

From the horse's mouth:

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." -- Menachem Begin (Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-1983. Nobel Prize Winner for...Peace!)

At the dawn of civilization, the blood rite, in which human blood is drunk from the body of a still-living victim, was known to many tribes. However, only one people, that has never progressed beyond the Stone Age, has continued to practice the blood rite and ritual murder. This people are known to the world as Jews.

The author of this book is not Christian, Muslim or Hindu but a Jew and is the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome, and a professor of Jewish Renaissance and Medieval History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, just outside Tel Aviv.

The following translation was performed free of charge to protest an injustice: the destruction by the ADL of Ariel Toaff’s BLOOD PASSOVER on Jewish ritual murder.

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They cut this Palestinian kid's arms for "throwing Stones" before murdering him

Repeat: The author is the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome, and a professor of Jewish Renaissance and Medieval History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, just outside Tel Aviv.

Dr. Toaff is uniquely qualified to write this book, being thoroughly familiar with the derivative literature in English, French, German and Italian, as well as the original documentary sources in Latin, Medieval Italian, Hebrew and Yiddish. This is not something he worked on in secret. On the contrary, he worked on it openly with his university students and colleagues in Israel for several years; one of his students was even going to publish a paper on the subject. The author is extremely careful about what he says, and his conclusions must be taken seriously. It reads like a detective story.

If it had been published in Israel, in Hebrew, no one would have cared. There are large bodies of literature in Hebrew that Jews do not wish Gentiles to know about. But Dr. Toaff’s announcement of its publication in Italy, in Italian, raised a worldwide firestorm of fury. Under unbearable pressure, the book was withdrawn from publication, and is not to be re-issued.

You can strike a blow against censorship by circulating this text by e-mail or posting in on the Internet. No one can sue hundreds of people.

If the text is all over the Internet, and everybody has it and everybody knows what is in it, the cat will be out of the bag, and it will have to be published – sooner or later.

"When I open the police files I find detailed reports about Jewish criminals. The archives have enough
material for 100 historians and for 100 years, and even then they won't finish." -- Haartez News. Jerusalem, Tuesday, November 2,2004

1 - Since being branded an "anti-Semite" has become quite a stigma, placing in jeopardy the individual's economic and social welfare, should not the phrase be exactly and rationally defined? Inevitably someone is going to be mislabeled sometime. And yet the arch-Zionist Anti-Defamation League of Banai B'rith, which usually has charge of wielding the branding iron, has repeatedly refused to answer queries from this committee asking for such a definition. We have sadly concluded by wondering whether that "upright" organization should not more accurately be called the Anti-Definition League!

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2 - What is a "Semite"? Is it or is it not a member of a racial group? According to the prevailing Jewish authority, Jewry is a religious group only, with no racial (i.e., genetic) identity. Yet they continue tacitly to endorse a 19th century racialist conception of themselves every time they label an opponent "anti-Semitic." In order to get United Nations approval of a measure condemning religious discrimination recently, the so-called State of Israel gravely assented to having the word "anti-Jewish" substituted for "anti-Semitic." If the two are synonymous to any extent, would it not be more accurate if all Jewish organizations similarly dropped the meaningless and racist designation "anti-Semitic" in favor of "anti-Jewish"?

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3 - As we have seen, the majority of today's Jews are not descendants of the Old Testament Hebrews but of a Mongolian people of Central Asia called Khazars. These people were fairly recent converts to Judaism, as Arthur Koestler and earlier writers have shown. Yet, the non-Semitic Mongolian "Jews" are by far the most powerful in Jewish and Zionist affairs, and are the ones who quickest raise the cry of "anti-Semitism" against ideas or activities that irritate them. In the interest of historical accuracy, should not this peculiar but evidently necessary vocabulary of swear-words be enriched by the term "anti-Khazar"? At the very least, should not intelligent people realize that anti-Zionism does not equal "anti-Semitism"?

The Six Million Reconsidered, Committee for Truth in History, Historical Review Press

"The Jewish people as a whole will become its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order the "children of Israel" will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands."